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SECOND MAN ON TRIAL IN $240,000 SWINDLE

Charges that Sam Elkin, 44 years old, of 80 Clarkson Street, Brooklyn, had helped to perpetrate a $240,000 swindle involving the making of thousands of checks with false face values totaling $15,000,000 were placed before a jury in Federal court yesterday by Harold J. McAuley, assistant United States attorney.

October 12, 1944

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